Sunday, April 4, 2010

NCSA welcomes two more instructors who are joining the NCSA Instructor group - Larry Suter and Paul Searles

NCSA is fortunate to have two more very skilled and talented gliderpilots join the NCSA instructor group.

Larry Suter recently completed his CFI-G in Byron and has already started instructing. He passed his Commercial Glider rating last September in Air Sailing in a SGS 2-33.

Larry is an active, long time member of NCSA and acts as club secretaryon the Board. He is an active cross-country pilot, flying his 1-36 (purchased in 2008)-over 2,000 miles in 2009 with a flight out of Bishop over 300 km. He received the "most improved pilot of the year 2008 (or was it 2007?). He is also an active power pilot with Attitude aviation.He recently purchased a DG 300 but may not have flown it yet - tow plane problems were partly responsible. More details about Larry's bio will be obtained when he returns from his present trip to Russia.

Paul Searles came to the NCSA and the Bay Area from Texas SoaringAssociation, where he was a CFI-G and owner of a DG-300.Prior to flying gliders he was an Air Force flight instructor and flightexaminer in C-130s. He enjoyed giving instruction in the G-103, SZD 50-3 and ASK-21 at TSA and is looking forward to helping out as an NCSA Instructor.

The NCSA Board has just voted (by email vote) to accept Paul as clubinstructor.Paul brought his DG-300 to Byron and is planning on taking it to the Air Sailing Thermal and Cross-Country camps this summer.

.Now that NCSA has eight (8) club instructors, members will be able toget quality instruction without the long waits and rushed briefings thatwere too often the case when we only had 3, or 4 active instructors. Wehope members will come more frequently for instruction and arrive earlier as that is the best way to make progress. It will be great when we have access to one or two more tow planes.

About the Buzzard

The Buzzard is the online journal of the Northern California Soaring Association(NCSA), a soaring club located in the San Francisco Bay area. The club operates generally on weekends, and flies out of Byron Airport.